The Mt Rushmore of Sportscards

ndleo

OK, some of the topics are getting a little too heavy. Let's have some fun. Can you come up with a Mt Rushmore from your collection?

Here is mine, 1970's FB Greats Mt Rushmore

balco758

Changed my mind

dan89

Tough call

coolstanley

Love that Bradshaw rookie. Nice looking card.

NGS428

Trout is trying to break the all Griffey Mt. Rushmore.

sjjs28

My Mount Rushmore has 5 heads....
Always looking for 6th, and beyond

If anybody would care to help me carve out number 6 - I would love to acquire and slide a 1955 Bowman Mantle (8) and/or a 1957 Topps Mantle (8) into the mix ....

ndleo

Don't forget to add why it's your Mt Rushmore.

I love the 1956 Mantle. I have one in a 4 in my Mantle pile.

sjjs28

Isn't it obvious?

Classic, Enduring, Eye Catching and most assuredly Vintage

stwainfan

I will go with these.

nam812

I'm going to do a vintage and a modern.

Copyboy1

I have a Rice Beckett 9, but thought I'd stick with all PSA for visual sake.

Copyboy1

And my basketball Rushmore...

rmh111985

I almost exclusively collect Patrick Roy, and these are definitely the Rushmore cards of my PC:

MantleFan23

What a great idea for a thread. I needed something different to read other than about market speculation.

Here is my modest Mt. Rushmore

Sitting in the #1 spot would have to be my 1962 Topps Wax Pack PSA7. After purchasing this "unknown" series wax pack, I was able to get help from a member of the Vintage Wax and Packs Facebook group to determine that this pack was a 3rd series wax pack. The 3rd series contains the great Mickey Mantle. I will probably never send it back in for reholdering due to fear about gum damage during transit. However, the day that he messaged me and told me the good news, I was on cloud nine. I've always wanted a pack from a Mantle series, and it was great to know that I had one all along.

Sitting in the #2 spot is my 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth graded PSA1. For as long as I could remember, this card has always been iconic to me. It seemed like every National I attended, I would see the Goudey Ruth at tables and just wonder what it would be like to own one. A few years ago, a PSA1 with, in my opinion, tremendous eye appeal appeared up for auction. When I saw it, I knew that I had to have it. Luckily, my snipe barely held up in the end.

The #3 spot is housed by another wax pack, my 1971 Topps PSA 8, 3rd series (Garvey RC series). One of my most fondest memories of growing up was seeing all the 1971 cards that my dad collected. He probably opened 20-30 boxes as a teenager and still had many of them in the mid 1980s. I recall seeing about 30 Steve Garvey rookies. Obviously, the 1971 wax pack is the most difficult to obtain of the decade. I had completed an entire 1970's wax pack run, and the last remaining pack was the 1971. I snagged this one as a buy it now at a reasonable price about 3 years ago.

The #4 spot is my Ryne Sandberg PSA 10 Topps Rookie Card. Ryno was my favorite baseball player growing up and until just recently, I never had a PSA 10 copy of his rookie card. I've probably had 10-15 raw cards over my lifetime and one PSA9. The 1983 Topps card designs is one of my favorites, and this is one of the few PSA10's in my collection.

bruin805

Here are my Mt. Rushmores for football, baseball, and basketball.

DBesse27

Are raw cards allowed? Because my best football card was a raw purchase and is currently sitting at SGC.

ndleo

Post away. Bonus points if u get the poses right

coolstanley

@DBesse27 said:
Are raw cards allowed? Because my best football card was a raw purchase and is currently sitting at SGC.

Some of my best are currently sitting at Beckett. Be sometime this summer before I see them again.

hslice

Wow this makes me regret selling all my collectibles 25 years ago upon college graduation. I actually had a walk-in closet that you couldn't walk-in anymore. I had so many of those same cards

DBesse27

Gonna do a football and baseball one, football first. In narrowing them down, I favored variety. Most of my main projects, either completed or in progress, are represented.

Football. Includes 1 card of each of the 3 players whom I collect:

Baseball. Didn't want this one to be all Yaz. Includes some Venezuelan love and the SP that completed my 59F Ted set:

3stars

OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

DBesse27

@3stars said:
OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

Pics or it didn’t happen

azvike

@3stars said:
OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

I agree with these 4.....and the JB rookie is UNBELIEVABLY under-valued....

1951WheatiesPremium

My Mt. Rushmore of The Yankees Mount Rushmore (Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio Mantle)😁

Copyboy1

@azvike said:

@3stars said:
OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

I agree with these 4.....and the JB rookie is UNBELIEVABLY under-valued....

It's getting up there. I have a PSA 3 and 8 months ago, it was a $300 card. Now it's a $2,000 card.

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balco758

Prize Captive is my favorite !!!

LGC

My hockey rush some more:

CW

^^ we need a "WOW!" button to click on for posts like that one. Gave it a "like" in the meantime. Nice, LGC!

balco758

That 54 Topps Howe is a piece of art work. Awesome card.

PNWcollector

@DBesse27 said:
Gonna do a football and baseball one, football first. In narrowing them down, I favored variety. Most of my main projects, either completed or in progress, are represented.

Love your Rose Venz. Beautiful card.

1951WheatiesPremium

How about a Topps Donnie Baseball edition?

1951WheatiesPremium

Here’s a fun one! Certainly won’t always be accurate but it is today.

Single top pop Mickey’s

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@sjjs28 said:
My Mount Rushmore has 5 heads....
Always looking for 6th, and beyond

If anybody would care to help me carve out number 6 - I would love to acquire and slide a 1955 Bowman Mantle (8) and/or a 1957 Topps Mantle (8) into the mix ....

Outta sight!

blurryface

feels like a modern rushmore today for some reason. plus easy is good.

4 of the 25 oranges:

tomorrow we'll carve out something else...

72skywalker

Here are my four.

ChewliesGum

That’s gotta be the nicest 1 I have ever seen. What pushed it down to that grade?

AFLfan

So tough to really nail down just four, but here is an AFL attempt...

An Alworth-specific attempt

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@AFLfan

JESUS, TODD!

I’m sure you posted that Namath before but my goodness!

It feels like the first time.

It feels like the very first time.

AFLfan

Lol, thanks Tim. Great Foreigner reference, BTW.

I am so flakey when it comes to these kinds of threads, my tastes change regularly. I might have posted the Namath at some point, but I don't recall for sure.

There are several other cards I like as much, if not more, that could be swapped in also. I guess I just don't have clear cut favorites.

ndleo

Great posts. I'm glad that everyone is enjoying this. I need to do a 4-sport post to keep up with UFFDAH

PNWcollector

@ChewliesGum said:

That’s gotta be the nicest 1 I have ever seen. What pushed it down to that grade?

Paper loss on the back, no doubt.

DBesse27

@PNWcollector said:

@ChewliesGum said:

That’s gotta be the nicest 1 I have ever seen. What pushed it down to that grade?

Paper loss on the back, no doubt.

Correct. Thanks for the kind words guys. I love that Rose card too.

emar

Not an easy choice. (Except for The Mick)
Vintage Rushmore

DBesse27

@emar awesome stuff!

emar

@DBesse27 said:
@emar awesome stuff!

Thank you, I appreciate that!

blurryface

@AFLfan
@1951WheatiesPremium

have to concur on that namath! color and centering are amazing. it's oversized, and one of the few mistakes ive made by not nailing it down. think this was the swift kick in the stones to get going! so thank you!?!?!

eta: not gonna lie. im nervous to even look at the price tags. it's prolly been 3 years since my last active search...